Album Review

A good second effort that lacks the intensity of their debut, but never fails to deliver the goods. Again, Lundberg and Caganis are consistently wonderful, especially on the ranting "Here Comes God" and the slightly psychedelic "Born in the '60s." Another undeservedly ignored record.

Biography

Formed: 1986

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '80s, '90s

How about a bunch of thuggish-sounding, Stooges-inspired pounders from...Sweden? That's right, you American xenophobes, I said Sweden. In fact, I can think of few bands who employed the Stooges primal riff-thud'n'noise better than UCP. Fueled by the rampaging guitars of Patrick Caganis and Bjorn Olsson, and the half-octave, node-encrusted vocal growl (and did this son of a bitch growl!) of Ebbot Lundberg, UCP roared out of the blocks with an awesome debut record entitled In the Air Tonight which,...